Recording-register.



J. A. HOWE.

RECORDING REGISTER.

APPLICATION mu) ma. 24. 19:1

1 ,25 1 ,889. Patented Jan. 1, 1912;

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RECORDING REGISTER. APPLICATION mco FEB. 24. 1911.

Patented J an. 1, 1918.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JUTIIUS ALLEN HOWE, 0! NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOB TO IUNIUS JCK HOWE, OI

NEW YORK, N. Y.

RECORDING-REGISTER,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J UNIUS ALLEN Hows, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Recording-Registers, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a recording register which may be attached and applied to an automobile, and preferably to an automobile truck,- to show the.

mileage traveled, the velocity at all times of travel, and the time the engine is running, so that it will be possible to tell from the record whether or not the vehicle is properly used. These, and other objects are accomplished by my invention, one em bodiment of which ishereinafter more par- In the drawings, forming a part hereof Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the 'line 22 of Fig. 1,1ooking in the direction of the arrows. 2

Fig. 8 shows a portion of the clock mechanism and the frame of the same.

F i 4, 5 and 6 are sectional views, taken on -t e lines- 4-4, 5-5 and 6-43 respectively of Fig. 1.

Figs. 7and 8 show a device on the reel for securing the record, Fig. 8 being a sectional view taken on the line 8-8 of a Fig. 7, looking in the direction of the arrows.

. Throughout the various views of the drawings similar reference characters designate'similar parts.

My improved recording register 1 is rovided with any suitable case 2 of w" ch only the bottom part is shown, the top part being removed so as to reveal the interior.

The recording mechanism 3, which is placed in the case 2, is actuated by the shaft 4 which is adapted to be connected to any wheel in the conventional manner, just as a speedometer is ordinarily attached, and by a air of wires 5 which are connected in series with any suitable circuitof the automobile which 18 energized only when the engine is running.

The .wires 5 run to a pair of magnets 6 which are mountedin a casing 2 in any suitable way and above them is an armature 7 which is hung from a rod 8 that runs Specification of Letter: Patent. Application am February 24, 1917. Serial No. 150,689.

Patented Jan. 1, 1918.

through the coil 5 ring 9 mounted on a suitable shelf 10, w ich is fixed to the case 2, and the upper end of this red 8 is pivoted by connecting to the lever 8 and fulcrumed at 12 upon any suitable support 13 which may rise from the shelf 10, or any other fixed part of the apparatus which is suitable. The free end of the lever 11 isprovided with a (pencil 14 which normally bears on the recor 15, which will be described below, while this record is on guide 16 and before it is wound on a reel 17.

Enough-hasbeen said to show 'that when the magnets 6 are ener "zed, the armature 7 is drawn to them an then the encil is drawn off of the record 15 and oes not mark the same, and that means that as long as the engine is running, the encil 14 does not mark therecord 15, an it does mark this record at all other times. From this it is apparent that the presence of the mark of the pencil 14 on the record 15 indicates that the engine is not running, and the presence of such a mark indicates that the engine is running.

Another pencil 18 is always parallel to the pencil 14 (see Fig. 4) and is mounted in a crosshead 19 that runsin suitable guides 20 which are fixed to the casing 2 by means of a cap-screw 21, as is shown, or in any other suitable way. -The guides 20 are slightly separated so as'to receive between them a cam late 22 in which is found a diagonally isposed slot'23 which also engages the crosshead 19 so as to slide the same in the guides 20. .The cam plate 22 is mounted so as to reciprocate in suitable guides 24 extending from the shelf 10, or in any other suitable manner.

The lower face of the cam plate 22 has a pin 25 which runs in a corresponding cam groove 26 of the .cam 27 which is mounted to rotate in suitable bearings 28 which extend from the base of the casing 2. This cam 27 is fixed to a worm gear 29 which meshes with a worm 30 which is fixed to the shaft 4 so that this worm gear 29 and the cam 27 are always driven with an angular movement and velocity corres ending to the travel of a wheel of the vehic e. The entire length of the cam groove 29 corres onds to a definite mileage, as two miles, so t lat each travel of the pencil 18 in one direction indicates one mile of-movement. It will be understood that the shelf 10 is slotted as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. so as toperreach the groove 26.

The reel 17 is mounted on a suitable shaft 31 which is driven by a clock mechanism 32 of the conventional kind. This clock mechanism may be wound b means of the usual arbor 33 which exten 3 through the face plate 34 of this clock mechanism 32, in the usual manner: The reel 17 is mounted on a spider 35 and has a number extending arms 36 which are bent to engage and hol a rim 37 which may be of any suitable kind. It is-preferably made with a hinged part 38 which is normall held b acoil spring 39 which has one en secure to the part. 38

and the other to a part of the spokes 36.

and its free end is given a mortise oint and provided with spi cs 40' which enter. corresponding holes in the rim 37 to hold the record- 15 at one end and hold it securel The record passes over the guide 16iand 1s pressed against the same by a leaf sprin 41 he]? 10 .secured to the lower surface of the s .place as shown in Fig. 1 where it is held by the spikes 40 as above set forth. The

' clock mechanism is suflicient to run for any time desired, as twenty-four hours, and to avoid making the record 15 on too small a scale, it is preferable to have it go twicearound the reel in twent -four hours.

The record 15 is divide with a slight diff ference in spacingso that after 12 hours, when the ree takes the second layer, and the feed -is therefore slightly increased, the

spaces are accordingly increased. It isobvious that if the device were made to run for several days and a lon er record 15 were used, the spaces would ave to be accordingly increased at the end of each 12 hours to' compensate for the increasing diameter due to the increasing number of layers on the reel.

In the preferred embodiment of my invention the longitudinal marksare placed to'indicate-the respective runs of the pencils 14 and 18 and between these runs the hours are indicated. The transverse markings indicate quarter hours. \Vhen the vehicle is not running the pencil 18 always makes a .mit the pin 25'to'extend therethrough and r the character 44 and in evidence of suchtamperin mark. parallel with the longitudinal marks on the record, and if the en 'ne is not running at such a time'tha enci makes the cor responding mark. If t I e engine is running no mark is made by the pencil 14 as the magnet 6 is then enerlgized as above set forth.

The line made by t e pencil 14 is i1 dicated by the mark made by .the pencil 18 is indicated by the character 45.

t will be noticed that the line 44 is interrupted and the line 45 is broken with parts running parallel to the longitudinal lines of the record and parts running-at an angle thereto. It isapparent that as the rotation of the reel is (in: orrn,- the nearer this angle approaches 90' de the greater the-veloclty of the -vehacle-when' therecord was made, and from the'lin'e '45 it i'seasy to tell the exact time when the vehicle-was in motion, the velocity, and-thadistance traveled, and from the line" 44ithe exact time the engine was at rest. The recordx is'made' from these pencils 14 and18when against the record 15,as above described,'w ile this record is still on thef'guide '16 and before it gets to the-ree1.17," so that the record can always be made; whenresting on a fixed and smooth surface and' 'n'ever "on the movin surface of the,reel.'-" 1Once a; day the recor 15 may be readilyremoved from the apparatus"and a new record .15 inserted, as above described,'and1atthat time the clock may be'wound. .The casingz2 is secured to' the'vehicle in suitable-way, not shown, and is protected. ymeansgof'a lock or any other suitable means, =so-t'hat it cannot be tampered with whennot use without leavile I have shown and described one embodiment of my invention, it'is obvious that it is not restricted thereto but is broad eno with n thescope of the annexed claim. "What'I claim is: v

In a device of theclam' described, a driving shaft, a worm' on said shaft, a wormgear meshing with said worm, a cam connected to sa1d worm-gear, a pintle adapted to engage said cam, a plate connected to said pintle, ides for said plate, a diagonally dispose; oove in said plate, guides and a pintle ho er in said guides, whereby the movement of the slide makes a transverse movement of the pencil guide.

. JUNIUS ALPL'E'N Hows. 

